LV. GRACE—CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE

gracie:
dad?

dad👴🏽:
Yes daughter?

gracie:
can I come home?

gracie:
just for a few days, I promise.

dad👴🏽:
Of course! You don't need to ask.

gracie:
thank you

dad👴🏽:
May I ask why, though? Does it have to do with that boyfriend of yours?

gracie:
kind of, not really. it's complicated.

dad👴🏽:
I've got time. The boys are warming up anyways.

gracie:
it's just the tabloids dad. they're really getting to me and I didn't think they would.

gracie:
it's just, I really want to be with him dad. he makes me so so happy, but there's so much that comes with him that I second guess it sometimes. I just feel awful. I don't know what to do.

dad👴🏽:
Grace, you know I can't tell you what to do.

gracie:
I know

dad👴🏽:
But I can suggest something.

gracie:
please

dad👴🏽:
Alright, bear with me.

dad👴🏽:
Say I give you the best and biggest donut you've ever had, but people don't like it, and people talk about you eating it all the time. Would you stop eating the donut because of what other people say about it?

gracie:
No, it doesn't matter if they like the donut or not anyways.

gracie:
I don't understand where this is going?

dad👴🏽:
Shh let me finish.

dad👴🏽:
So you won't give up the donut because of what other people say. Good. So why would you give up the chance to be with someone who makes you so incredibly happy because of what a few irrelevant people say? Give it a chance, it could be the greatest thing to have ever happened to you.

gracie:
you're right. thank you dad

gracie:
I needed to hear that. Maybe not in that context, but still. Thank you.

dad👴🏽:
Anytime, sweetie. Now go talk to your donut.

gracie:
Will do.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: honestly daddy capuano is in my top five list of fave people + he calls seb her donut bc #youarewhatyoueat more like #youdatewhatyoueat